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as I know that your Lordhip is by nature whollie inclined, and in purpoe earnetly bent to releeue the poore, and that not onlie with hopitalitie and almes, but by diuere other deuies and waies tending to their comfort, hauing (as it were) framed and et your elfe to the helpe and maintenance of their etate; as appeareth by your charge and trauell in that behalfe. Whereas alo you haue a peciall care for the upporting of their right, and redreing of their wrongs, as neither depiing their calamitie, nor yet forgetting their complaint, eeking all meanes for their amendement, and for the reformation of their diorders, euen as a verie father to the poore. Finallie, for that I am a poore member of that commonwelth, where your Lordhip is a principall peron; I thought this my trauell, in the behalfe of the poore, the aged, and the imple, might be Rh